17 Oct
2006
17 Oct
'06
2:09 p.m.
We have a Dell box at work that doesn't even have a Centronics parallel port
-- just USB ports. I needed to get a USB-to-Parallel converter cable to hook
up the laserjet to this box.
Bob
From: "Jay West" <jwest at
classiccmp.org>
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Subject: Re: PDT-11/150 down
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:12:54 -0500
Pat wrote....
Almost all the machines we have at work, which I
admin, have
RS-232 console ports....
That's true, most of your name brand data-center class
Intel based (and
others) have full bios support for serial console. However, those are not
the typical machines a consumer buys.
Just try finding a laptop these days that has a serial port. You won't find
much (if any). I daresay more than half the consumer grade PC's for the
home do not have serial ports on them either nowdays.
RS232 as far as a general purpose consumer interface is dead.
Jay